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Literally adding Google Meet URLs to Zoom meeting invites in Google Calendar, so half of a meeting's members went to the wrong room is kinda a bad way to scale

Literally adding Google Meet URLs to Zoom meeting invites in Google Calendar, so half of a meeting's members went to the wrong room is kinda a bad way to scale your product: https://mspoweruser.com/googles-latest-audacious-growth-hack-sending-google-meet-links-along-with-zoom-invites/ https://mspoweruser.com/googles-latest-audacious-growth-hack...

izacus 6y ago
The dates on the shown graph significantly predate this new feature (or GMail tab).
gav 6y ago
There's a setting you can turn on called "Automatically add Google Meet video conferences to events I create"[1]. I tested on a new account and the default was on, which you might argue is bad, but when I tried to create my first calendar event there was a popup that told me that it was on and gave me the option to turn it off. Plus when you create a event the option to include a Google Meet is right there and it's one click to remove. [1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/9898950?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/9898950?hl=en
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  Question is, what's it doing when you use client software that doesn't support the spammy popups? It appears that for a third party client user, it auto-injected URLs the sender didn't expect or even see. So someone creating a Zoom invite had no idea their coworkers might see a Meet link. Also, Google could/should recognize that a meeting invite with a competitor's room URL in it is somewhere it shouldn't inject its own. Especially since it opens up yet another avenue for an open and shut anticompetitive case against them.
  - londons_explore 6y ago
    Blacklisting some competitor URL's is discriminatory against smaller competitors or people's on-site solutions at private URLs
    - SahAssar 6y ago
      The parent didn't say to blacklist the competitor but rather to not inject googles own when a competitors URL was already in the invite.
amf12 6y ago
> Literally adding Google Meet URLs to Zoom meeting invites in Google Calendar, so half of a meeting's members went to the wrong room is kinda a bad way to scale your product You could argue that, yes. And I won't blame you. But if you ignore Google and Meet for a moment and consider Microsoft (or in an alternate universe - Apple); product wise, this is a good decision. Reduces friction from creating meetings and provides a better experience. You can disable automated Meet meeting generation though.
lern_too_spel 6y ago
PEBKAC. Google Calendar integrates with multiple meeting systems. The organizer should have used Zoom's integration to put the Zoom link in the meeting field instead of putting the Zoom link in the location field and adding a Meet link in the meeting field. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360020187492-Google-Calendar-add-on?mobile_site=true https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360020187492-Googl...

izacus 6y ago

The dates on the shown graph significantly predate this new feature (or GMail tab).

gav 6y ago

There's a setting you can turn on called "Automatically add Google Meet video conferences to events I create"[1]. I tested on a new account and the default was on, which you might argue is bad, but when I tried to create my first calendar event there was a popup that told me that it was on and gave me the option to turn it off. Plus when you create a event the option to include a Google Meet is right there and it's one click to remove. [1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/9898950?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/9898950?hl=en

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Question is, what's it doing when you use client software that doesn't support the spammy popups? It appears that for a third party client user, it auto-injected URLs the sender didn't expect or even see. So someone creating a Zoom invite had no idea their coworkers might see a Meet link. Also, Google could/should recognize that a meeting invite with a competitor's room URL in it is somewhere it shouldn't inject its own. Especially since it opens up yet another avenue for an open and shut anticompetitive case against them.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  Blacklisting some competitor URL's is discriminatory against smaller competitors or people's on-site solutions at private URLs
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    The parent didn't say to blacklist the competitor but rather to not inject googles own when a competitors URL was already in the invite.

amf12 6y ago

> Literally adding Google Meet URLs to Zoom meeting invites in Google Calendar, so half of a meeting's members went to the wrong room is kinda a bad way to scale your product You could argue that, yes. And I won't blame you. But if you ignore Google and Meet for a moment and consider Microsoft (or in an alternate universe - Apple); product wise, this is a good decision. Reduces friction from creating meetings and provides a better experience. You can disable automated Meet meeting generation though.

lern_too_spel 6y ago

PEBKAC. Google Calendar integrates with multiple meeting systems. The organizer should have used Zoom's integration to put the Zoom link in the meeting field instead of putting the Zoom link in the location field and adding a Meet link in the meeting field. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360020187492-Google-Calendar-add-on?mobile_site=true https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360020187492-Googl...